Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-01-08 | Page 5 | Hagenbarth Declares Wool Supply Ample

II I HAGENBARTH I DECLARES WOOL SUPPLY AMPLE Wires Vires Committee Shortage V Scare cal e Is Inspired by hy Shoddy I Interests V Washington a ton Jan 7 The 7 The Senate military mil mit- Ita I committee investigating In the tho filling fill till lug ing of war orders orderA for tOl the army re received re- re toda today a telegram from Frank J. J of Salt alt Lake president lt of or the National association association association tion asserting that the wool shortage scare has been V caused h by interests I desiring to ue use shoddy In the manufacture manu manu- facture o of goods g lot for the government o and that present arid and future raw wool supplies aro arc ample to afford aford sufficient wool to mal make e all wool army armr clothing cloUting V Use of reworked wool or shoddy in instead instead instead in- in stead of ot cotton for tor mixture In w woolen olen cloth for the arm army was vigorously defended de de- de defended fended before tho the committee today b by Col Cot John I P. P Wood of tho the engineers engineers' reserve corps former president of or the National Association ot of Wool Manufacturers Manu Mann and Winthrop Ol I. I L. L Marvin of t Boston Doston secretary o of the association Both Doth declared l the new garments as warm warn or warmer than those ma made e un under under under un- un der the old specifications and Insisted that the substitution was wa as necessary to conserve tho the wool supply The Thc witnesses gave J. C the committee Its first information concerning the origin of the shoddy order They said it was as proposed b by a committee of or V manufacturers' manufacturers associations and was adopted over tho the opposition of Quartermaster Quartermaster General Sharpe and Charles V vice Ice chairman of or tho the defense defense de do- councils council's supply committee Mr Mi Marvin told tho the committee that the thc government had lund lost between n and b by falling failing to accept raw wool offered last April IJ b by Boston and Philadelphia traders